World Homelessness Day
Annual Promotion Event This is an event that FCG have facilitated for a few years now, enabling the public to see the whole
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Coming Home: the Archbishop’s new housing initiative
Over 8 million people in Britain currently live in unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable housing – something that is completely unacceptable. To respond to
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Wishing You all the very best for 2021
Read our Christmas 2020 Newsletter
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MARKING WORLD HOMELESS DAY IN READING 2020
A group of Reading’s charities, churches, community organisations and Council commissioned services are once again marking World Homeless Day on Saturday 10th October
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Saying farewell to Chris Cordrey
After several years of service as a Trustee Chris has taken a well earned retirement. He has been best known for much hard
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Reading’s homelessness crisis and what’s being done to stop people ending up on the streets
At FAITH Christian Group we are doing our bit to help reduce the risks associated with rough sleeping, especially by providing a Night
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Government Report on Rough-Sleeping
The number of rough sleepers in England has increased significantly in recent years. According to Government statistics, the total number of rough sleepers
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Modern Slavery and Homelessness
It is a tragic truth that many people in this country are being severely exploited and some in actual modern slavery whereby they
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Lord Bourne visits Reading
Lord Bourne, Minister for Faith, visited Reading University on 28th June 2019 to meet with various representatives of Faith Groups working in the
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Gather National Summit
As Director of FCG I was privileged to be part of the 2019 Gather Summit in Milton Keynes this week (26/27 June 2019)
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Museum of Homelessness!
A rather bizarre but poignant website has appeared featuring the names of people who have died homeless in Britain. It is a tragic
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The Cross of Christ
The greatest evangelist of the 20th Century died just before Easter 2018 Before he died he recorded a video which explains in the
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Charity of the Year……Again!
Blake Morgan Reading made FAITH Christian Group to be Charity of the Year for the 3rd Year running in 2018-2019. FCG are hugely
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Helping those with no entitlement to benefits
At the second UK Network Event, Verena Hutcheson, Homelessness and Housing Pathways Manager Housing Needs at Reading Borough Council shared how they have been supporting those with
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Planning a trip abroad? Support us while you book it!
Just by going through “Give as you live” you can be donating to us without it costing you a penny. Well you have
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Ten thousand parcels delivered!
As we enter a new year and review it is amazing to see that last year we broke through the 10,000 parcel ceiling!
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B4N HUB
Due to Coronavirus it is simply not practicable to house a large number of people overnight as we have been doing over the
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Alison on Radio Berkshire
Alison Peyton – Food Bank Manager interviewed on Radio Berkshire Monday 14th December Three segments of interviews with Brigitte Tetteh at the ReadiFood
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Burnley: ‘Children ripping bags open for food’ during pandemic
The poorest communities have been hit hardest during the Covid-19 pandemic. BBC analysis shows the death rate from all causes between April and
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